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  • 2024 Legislative Priorities

    2024 Legislative Priorities

    The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've buil ...

  • The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    On August 29, President Biden announced that Medicare has selected the first 10 medications that they will negotiate lower prices for. These negotiations were made possible by the ...

  • The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    In the fight against childhood cancer, children are noncombatants. That is the response of The Alyssa House Board Chair, Lynn Divers, to the more common conception of cancer treatm ...

  • Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Not all mental health care is created equal. For Myra Anderson of Brave Souls on Fire, nothing underlines that statement more than the ways Black people have experienced marginaliz ...

Happy Mother’s Day! Join us in saving Medicare for the next generation.

Happy Mother’s Day! Join us in saving Medicare for the next generation.

 This weekend, show you support Medicare for the next generation by posting a Mother’s Day picture Can a mother’s silence be bought? We don’t think so, ...

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VA’s Outrage Over Vote to Slash Medicare Will Not Be Heard By Congress

VA’s Outrage Over Vote to Slash Medicare Will Not Be Heard By Congress

We are hearing from community members who are outraged at Ryan's "Coupon Care" proposal. But most of Virginia's leaders in Congress who voted for the proposal, h ...

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SCOTUS Says No to Cuccinelli Fast Track

SCOTUS Says No to Cuccinelli Fast Track

Attorney General Cuccinelli's hopes to fast track his health care lawsuit died a certain death this morning. According to the Hill's Health Watch... The Supreme Court anno ...

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GOP Budget Ax Could Hit VA Hard

GOP Budget Ax Could Hit VA Hard

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia could take a real hit from the Medicare and Medicaid changes that are part of the GOP budget plan being considered today in Washington, D.C. That ...

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Extremism in tha’ House: What the Ryan Budget Will Mean for Health Care in VA

Extremism in tha’ House: What the Ryan Budget Will Mean for Health Care in VA

The House Budget Proposal released earlier this week has plenty of bad news to go around—especially for our seniors, children, people with disabilities and the millions of u ...

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Dr. Mark Ryan: March 22nd PPACA forum in Richmond

Dr. Mark Ryan: March 22nd PPACA forum in Richmond

This was originally posted by Mark Ryan, MD on the National Physicians Alliance BlogOn March 22nd, I was honored to join Virginia’s 3rd district Rep. Bobby Scott, Joanne Gro ...

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Charlottesville Health Care Law Forum Tuesday, April 5

Charlottesville Health Care Law Forum Tuesday, April 5

Charlottesville Health Care Forum:  Come learn how the new health care law impacts YOU!Raise your hand if you’ve heard someone complain about the health care reform law ...

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Showing You The Money

Showing You The Money

This post was originally posted in its entirety on Progress Notes the Doctors for America Blog. Virginia Organizing has been engaged in a letter writting campaign against H.R. 120 ...

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Happy Birthday Affordable Care Act!

Happy Birthday Affordable Care Act!

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act being signed into law. Rather than engage in political games of who’s up and who’s down we should take ...

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Happy Birthday Health Care Law!

Happy Birthday Health Care Law!

Here at Virginia Organizing, we are excited to be celebrating the 1st birthday of The Affordable Care Act next week!  On March 23, 2010 the health care law, 80 years in the m ...

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